Sano Shuji, our Great Mushroom Teacher
Sano-san is our great friend and ‘shishō’ 師匠- the Master – of all things fungi. Check out my story in Kyoto Journal, issue 104, ‘A Fascination with Fungi’, or drop by the Kyoto Imperial Palace Gardens once a month to join Sano-san on one of his brilliant Sunday morning fungi forays. Mrs A. and I are usually there. There is a Japanese translation of the text included, if you wish to show it to a Japanese friend (or are Japanese yourself 笑).
Sano-san will also be leading a Mushroom hunt to coincide with the Kansai Mycological Club’s 30th annual mushroom event on Saturday 28th October from 2 to 3 pm in the Kyoto Botanical Gardens . I’ll be at the venue providing English translation, though likely in the main exhibition space, not Sano-san’s lecture.
Dates: October 28 (Saturday) to October 29 (Sunday), 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (until 4:00 p.m. on the last day). Why not bring along a mushroom or two and get it identified by the experts.
The following pics are from the Botanical Gardens event in 2019:
This is one of the Sunday-morning Kyoto Imperial Gardens forays led by Sano Shuji:
Kew Mycology/Gay Icons as Fungi
Or is that Fungi as gay Icons? To celebrate Pride Month in the UK, the Kew Gardens Mycology department came up with these fun images. Which is your favourite?
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